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Professional Member Association of Lighting Designers

© 2008

It’s all about - the Light!

Paul J Need

Lighting Designer

Born in Liverpool; trained at R.A.D.A. where he later joined the staff teaching lighting design and stage electrics.

Over the last 27 years lit over 650 productions in theatre, dance, opera and music etc. as well as working as a sound engineer, production manager and cheif electrician for Sadlers Wells Opera.

Credits include "La Boheme", (Scottish Opera); Syria's first opera "Dido & Aeneas" (staged in a number of Roman Amphitheatres); "The Wasteland" ( Donmar Warehouse) and the British Premier of John Adam's "I was looking at the ceiling and saw the sky" (Royal Opera House, Lindbury).

Having spent many years touring opera all over the UK and France, music theatre, opera and lIve music events are my forte.